The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-04-28
NEARLY FIFTY MILLION BIBLES.
Printed in 1G5 Languages and Distrib-
uted Broadcast Over the World.

The American Bible society has just COM
piled the results of its work for the past year.
1t has issued OF, Cos volumes, besides 500,0 900
i'll foreign lands. This makes the total num-
ber of Bibles issued by the society since its or
ganization in 1916 48, ,356.251. The corrected
proof of the last pages of the New Testament
in Ponape have been returned from Microne-
sia, and the last pages of the Muskokee Testa-
ment from Oknulgee. The Dakotans want a
new edition in their language
The American Bible society has publish ed
the Bible in all the languages of Europe, and
in Reval- Estonian Irish, Finnish, four dia-
lects Of Africa, Csebo- Mpongwe, Benga, Di-
kele, Zulu; in the languages of the Sandwich
Islands and Micronesia; in the Slavic, Bulga-
rian, Chinese and japanese, and in ten North
American Indian dialects, making forty-eight
in all. Those issued by the British and For
eign Bible society makes the total number of
languages and dialects in which the Bible is
printed to-day by these societies 165 Of
these the oldest looking are the Irish, Sla-
vonic, Turkish and Azerbijan OF Tartar
Turkish, Georgian, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic,
TigFe (which has a colon after every world,
AllhaIic, Persian, Pali,- Pari-Guierati,
Sindhi, Cararese, Malaylam, Undu, Orissa,
Siamese, Bulman, Tibetah, Karen, Java
ne5e, Coptic, Cree, Time and Cherokee.
''How many translators do you employ?"
was asked of the Rev DR.. Alex. Mclean, one
of the secretaries.
"We have no translators. The work is
done by the missionaries, who have to study
the language of the country i'll which they
labor. The Bible society pays their expenses
while they are translating for u.s."
"How many Bibles have been printed for
the blind2"
There were issued last year 2O7; the entire
number in forty years is 14,1S4. There are
in the raised letter form"
"What are the new Bibles for the blind?"
Owe printed twelve years ago Bible in
the New York point print, and have printed
the Psalms in the same, and have now COM
pleted the Gospel according to st. John"
"What is the point print!"
"It is a system of points that represent
either separately or by combination the let
ters of the alphabet The old raised letters
could not be readily detected by fingers that
had become calloused by basket making, at
which many blind people work The points
can be felt by the dullest finger"
The cost Of supplying the Bible in foreign
lands is 800, ,G9224 more than is received
from them. One-ninth of all the families
visited by the agents are destitute of the
Bible
1t took DR.. Eli Smith and DIR. Van Dyck
sixteen years to translate the Bible into the
Arabic. DIR. Schauffler spent fourteen years
on the Osmanlee version. DR.. Schereschew
sky fifteen years to render the Old Testament
into the Mandarin Colloquial DIR. William
son and DR.. Riggs spent forty years on the
Dakotan version. One of them estimates
that he spent on an average thirty minutes
on every verse he translated. Since Bible so
cieties were organized $50 versions have been
produced in about 200 languages and dialects.
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